Thursday, January 23, 2014

As the tradition mandates, I
have been taking a few resolutions for 2014, and if you wonder which ones, here
you go:

1-Attend the IDUG
conference in Prague

2-Write a XMLquery
without SQL syntax error in less than 10 minutes

3-Become friend with
iterative SQL coding techniques

And since we are at the
beginning of the year, it’s time to look at all the great DB2 upcoming events
in 2014. As you probably know, IDUG North America is around the corner, it will
take place in Phoenix on May 12-16 [more info here]. Unfortunately,
I probably won’t make it. I have however looked at the many sessions scheduled,
read carefully the description, and selected the ones that matches my interests
(and my new year’s resolutions). So here is the top 10 sessions that I
recommend (ordered by session’s code) :

1-A10 DB2 for z/OS: Disaster Recovery for the Rest of Us

2-B02 How to Optimize a DB2 z/OS Application without any SQL
or Program Change?

3-E03 PARLEZ-VOUS KLINGON - DB2 RECURSION SQL FOR DATABASE
MAGICIANS

4-E07 Going Native: Leveraging DB2 for z/OS SQL Procedures and
UDFs

5-F04 Big Data Disaster Recovery Performance

6-F06 With the Emergence of Big Data, Where do Relational
Technologies Fit?